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I hope I get it soon just to get it over with.

you probably will, or already have. about half of Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers tested positive but were asymptomatic.

edit: of course that could have been the latent period at the beginning - not saying they all /stayed/ asymptomatic, just that it may already have arrived.

Anecdotal evidence shows that you can get reinfected.

There's a couple ways that 'reinfection' could be reported right?

- The test may have had a false negative

- The viral load was low due to anti-virals, and subsequently re-surged once off them

- The person has a compromised immune system and cannot form proper immunity.

SARS immunity was short-lived. Less than one year. Even in healthy individuals.

That's unfortunate. I did not know that

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